Raymond B. Blake is professor of history at the University of Regina and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has held visiting professorships at Phillipps-Universitat Marburg and University College Dublin, where he has twice held the Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies. He was formerly director of the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy and director of the Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. He has written and edited more than twenty books, including, most recently, Where Once They Stood: Newfoundland’s Rocky Road to Canada.